Did you try cupping before and how do you know about cupping? The first time I did cupping is when I was 14 years old, I did for my mom. She taught me to put a lit cotton ball into a glass bottle, burn it for 1-2 seconds, and then quickly put it on her shoulder. When I saw a purple and black mark on my mom's shoulder, I was scared and cried. I thought I had hurt my mom. But my mom told me it was a way to relieve the pain.
Yes, it was a good experience for me and gave me a preliminary understanding of traditional Chinese medicine treatments! Now, I would like to thank some of the media, famous actors, and athletes for bringing this traditional natural therapy to more people through their experiences. Be like “ ROCK NEEDS CUPPING TOO!”
Cupping is a treatment that uses a fire or an appliance to create negative pressure inside the jar so that it sticks to the skin. It has a history of thousands of years and is not only widely used in China, but also spread to the Middle East and Latin America.
The negative pressure of cupping will encourage blood flow, which will destroy some of the small blood vessels, which is the cause of cupping marks. But that's not a bad thing, because fresh blood oxygen will quickly flow to these areas to repair your body.
Usually, there are three kinds of cupping equipment. One is plastic cupping, which is a very simple operation, one only needs to install the handle above the cupping and pull can suck up the skin; the second is glass cupping, which usually needs to be preheated, with fire to burn off the oxygen in the cupping is directly placed on the skin, the negative pressure generated will suck up the skin, it can maintain a period of time temperature, we prefer to use it treats cold symptom; the last one is bamboo cupping, which is a very traditional material. In China, we will boil them together with some herbs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, place them at a warm temperature that can be touched by the skin, burn the internal oxygen with fire, and put them on the skin, so that the medicine can penetrate into the affected area through the skin to achieve the analgesic effect during cupping. In New Zealand, I usually shake them after they are attached to the skin, which quickly loosens the muscles and relieves the pain.
The most common use is dry cupping, but sometimes we use wet cupping when the patient has sharp pain, it's depending on the condition. The benefit of wet cupping is that after the blood flows out, there is more room for new blood to replenish, and at the same time, the lesion will flow out with the blood. You don't have to worry about you may lose 400cc of blood to your life and making you in danger. When enough fresh blood fills the area, it stops bleeding. Through cupping, you can see that the blood that comes out is dimmer because they no longer have enough oxygen in the body, which is also one of the reasons cause of the pain.
This is a very interesting part of making TCM diagnosis by the colour of the cupping marks.
Healthy people do not appear any dark colour cupping marks, it is pink, just like your face in the colour after drinking a little wine.
People with qi and blood deficiency will show cupping marks without colour, and they usually feel tired easily. The other kind of cupping mark is moderate stagnation, it's a show-off for a new injury. These two are the most common cupping marks.
Toxin accumulation and severe stagnation are normal for long-term or chronic injury, wet cupping is recommended in this case.
Excess dampness appears in people who live in a very humid environment and some elderly people. It is not burned, but the body is because of moisture through another way out of the body.
There are many therapists here who do not understand cupping, but simply think that the more cupping the better. However, we do not recommend this cupping for anyone. It makes you extremely tired and does some damage to your skin.
Our backs have a meridian along the spine on both sides, which are the bladder meridians, which are located on the two back muscles that we usually feel most comfortable with massage. Accordingly, it also corresponds to the position of our viscera, so the easiest way to detoxify is to put cupping on this meridian.
We can also put them in the location of our injury, and another simple way is to put them wherever your body feels uncomfortable.
This winter we recommend cupping for people who often get colds and people who have long Covid. I also recommend cupping if your body always feels weak or has some minor aches and pains for unknown reasons. The main reason is that I hope you can activate your immune system through cupping so that the blood oxygen in the body can flow more smoothly.
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